topic CRON in Operating System - HP-UX

CRON

Deepu Chakravarty — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:33:30 GMT

How to activate cron process ?

Re: CRON

RAC_1 — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:37:24 GMT

You need to start with man cron.

cron runs as daemon and runs scheduled processes. You schedule process as follows.

crontab -e and put entries in cron table.
A user needs to have permission to run cron. Which is controlled by /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file.

Anil

Re: CRON

Jean-Luc Oudart — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:39:10 GMT

cron is part of the startup scripts
Check that in /etc/rc.config.d/cron you have CRON=1

man cron

check also for cron.allow or cron.deny

Regards,
Jean-Luc

Re: CRON

John Carr_2 — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:40:14 GMT

hi

if you have edited a cronfile manually then

cron cronfile

this will activate it , to check what is activated

crontab -l

John.

Re: CRON

Geoff Wild — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:54:22 GMT

Here's some generic info on cron:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/usail/automation/cron.html

To edit cron: crontab -e

or: crontab -l > cronfile

Then vi cronfile

Whne done: crontab cronfile

Rgds...Geoff

Re: CRON

KapilRaj — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:34:18 GMT

Do you want more assistance ?

Kaps